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Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-05
ANOTHER OKLAHOMA BOON.
rhis Time 1t IL Led BY National Charas-
= Eter known as "Buckskin joe"

rhis Time 1t IL Led by National Charas-
nNEtcr known as 'Buckskin Joe"
FoRT WORTH, Tex, April For several
lays past a well known National character
n the person Of j. s. Wirks, Of Queen City,
setter known as "Bucksxin joe has been in
his city s.Buckskin Joe" is known and rec
,gnized "a the successor of Capt Payne, the
Oklahoma boomer, who died two years ago.
The colonization scheme was taken up by
.sRuckskin joe" where it was dropped by
Payne. and he is now making his second Mt
empt at colonization, the first attempt
having proved q failure q year ago. The
boomer now figures as the president Of the
Texas Oklahoma colony The present plan,
Is today made public, is to lead a colony
INTO one of the Pan Handle counties Of Texas
through which the Fort Worth Il Denver
railway is to be- extended. and settle on the
,chool lands Wirks claims To have 700 fam
lies in his colony and now says there will 10
thousand when they are ready To settle IN
few months.
He said liam in favor myself Of going
INTO Greer county. It makes no differences
whether Texas or Uncle Sam owns the
county. | think all we would have TO do
would be to 60 in and settle, and there would
De no trouble; but some Of the others think
differently, So this year we will settle in
Texas That's stepping stone to Oklahoma
eventually will never rest satisfied till we
% il, there Az near as can be ascertained
oy II careful investigation the present scheme
snothing less than an invasion Of Oklahoma
~, way Of Texas, instead Of Kansas
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-05
Promoted by the pope.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April lit is reported
here that Rev. A. Ravous, vicar general OF
this diocese and living in st. Paul, has been
appointed by the pope to the chnrchly posi-
ton of monsignor or domestic prelate. A
communication from we'll known prelate,
dated at Rome, announces that Bishop Ire
and has prepared and presented to the prop
uganda paper on emigration in general and
ON alien immigration in particular. As re
suit of the agitation on this subject an Ital-
ian emigration association has been formed,
and it will provide priest at each port of
emigration and one in New York. Bishop
Ireland will probe..y reach home ON May l
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-05
MARTINSBURG, w. VA.
TUESDAY, APRIL S. 1881.
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have Just finished some pictures
and have them on exhibition in my win
dow, the first ever made by lainplight.
There has been pictures made by Cal
cium. Lime and Electric Lights, but
never by lamp light before. ". T.
Fishers lamp takes the prize, but for.
fine work give me daylight yet. come
and see my work and give me chance
to show you that / am making finer
work than ever before, also see what
you can get large portraits for. Pictures
enlarged to any size and as good as you
can get anywhere. PC. HUNTER, 26
Queen ST., Martinsburg, w. Va.
FATHERS ADVICE TO HIS SoN.-''My
son, have heretofore presented you
with copy of the Holy Bible. IF you
study only one book let that be the Book
as the truths it contains are able to
make you wise unto salvation.
herewith present you with copy
of the recent edition of Webster's Tn
abridged Dictionary. Ifyou study only
two books let this be the other as it is
not only dictionary unsurpassed in
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Scriptures, Greek, Latin, and Geogra-
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making it book to which you will have
occasion frequently to refer during
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kege.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-05
Inflated Indianola.

GALVESTON, Tex, March 31.-The ill
fated town Of Indianola was visited by .
disastrous confagratioll last night, and what
remained Of the business part of the town
was destroyed The postoffice, Reagan &
Co.'S building, Hogan's merchandise store
rooms and number Of other business
houses and dwellings were consumed. The
ire is believed TO be the work of an incen
1iarY. Total loss unknown. u.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-05

Chicago Democrats are still hunting for
candidate for mayor. A committee has been
appointed to ask Potter Palmer or Marshal
Field to accept ths nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WORD comes from the West that the Zuni In
dams solidIy in favor of second term for
Mr.. Cleveland. They join hands with the other
squaw men known the mugwumps.-Phila
delphia Press.
SEVERAL esteemed contemporaries speak of
the fence on which the muRwumps sitting.
1t strikes that they must be mistaken The
mugwumps not on fence They are of by
themselves 8 high hill, with feld-glass and in
full uniform, directing the battles of the country
with unseen signals. -Detrot Tribune
HENRY GEORGE says the visionary schemes of
the antipoverty society opposed by the two
extremes. "the very rich and the very poor"
Bosh! If there were An anti-thirst society good
for anything it would not be opposed by the very
dry. AS the anti-poverty society is a hum bug
and fraud, the Every poor" have faith in it.
1t will never cure a single real evil of poverty.
Chicago Journal
SENATOR SHERMAN has been extolled for years
by the independent" press for his statesma like
and patriotic qualities, perhaps not exceled by
any man in public life. But lately he
ventured to speak few plain truths concerning
the South, and now he is being upbraided and
ridicued by all this class of papers. Yet not one
of them has ventured to suggest that he told
anything but the truth-Boston Advertiser.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
AN INSURANCE SWINDLER.
Arrest of Bryant B. Crandall, Charged with
Swindling Several Insurance Organizations.

BUFFALO June News received here an
nounces the arrest at Salem, Ore, of Bryant B.
Crandall, formerly Of Buffalo. who disappeared
from Niagara Falls in April, 1856. He left
note stating that he had committed suicide. \
body was subsequently found in the river below
the falls and identified as his by q scar caused
by an ax-cut on the right foot. Crandall be-
longed to Eve insurance organizations-the
Western New York Masonic, the Ancient Order
United Workmen. the Empire Order of Mutual
Aid, the Northwestern Masonic. of Chicago, and
the Royal Templars of Temperance All have
paid death claims except the Empire Order OF
Mutual Aid. II March last William B.
STREET., prominent citizen of Buffalo,
while travelling in California. recognized
Crandal on the streets of Los Angeles. On his
return, Streets statement published, and
the insurance organizations at once started
investigation. Secret circulars were sent all
Masonic and A. o. U. w. lodges or the Pncifc
SLOPE and by this means he was located at Sa-
lem, and arrested there last night The idenfi-
fcaton is said to be complete, even to the scar
the foot. An indictment has been found,
requisition will be at once taken out. and officers
sent to Oregon to bring Crandall to Buffalo In
the meantime he will be held at Salem fugi-
tive from Justice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA.
The Hampton-Preston Mansion. and How 1t
Passed Into Possession of Ursuline Nuns.

NEW YORK. June IA Columbia s c., spe-
cial to the World says: 1.-THE nuns of the Ursu-
line convent have moved into the historic Hamp-
ton-Preston mansion, having purch ased it for
1000. This mansion was given to them TWEEN
ty-two years ago under very interesting circum-
stances as related by the aged mother superior.
On the morning of Feb. Is. 1865, when General
Sherman saw the Ursuline nuns and the convent
students standing in st. Peters church yard.
their convent burning. ard they themselves
without food or shelter, he dismounted, extended
his hand to the mother superior. and said: ..Ah.
sister. these are times in which to practice
Christian fortitude.'
"You have made them so, General replied
the mother superior.
II am sorry, truly sorry that your convent 10
burned" said the General
A brief interview followed, during which
General Sherman offered in the kindest manner
to give the Ursuline nuns any unoccuped house
in the city which they might choose for con-
vent, and said he would send them a strong
guard for protection He then deputed Gen.
Charles Ewing. son of Senator Thomas Ewing
of Ohio. to contribute in whatever way he could
to the comfort of the sisters. They were taken
to a confederate hospital, but it was already
crowded, and General Ewing advised the mother
superior to accept General Shermans offer and
choose a convent. She replied: Yes, we have
thought of asking for General Presron's man
sion, which is large"
sis that where General Logan holds his head
quarters2" asked General Ewing.
Eyes" was the reply.
THAT is ordered to be burned tomorrow
morning, after we leave; but if you will take it
for convent / will speak to the General and
the order will be countermanded."
The nuns sought temporary shelter for the
night, and at early hour in the morning they
were told by officer that the orders were to
fire the Preston mansion unless they in
actual possession The mother superior and q
number of sisters hastened to tho mansion to
find fires already lighted in the yard and fire.
balls scattered in the house 20 the third floor,
but upon their entering the fires were extin-
guished and they were left in possession of the
most elegant of the few houses standing in the
city. After the war they gave it up to General
Preston. The statement of the mother SUI
perior indicates plainly by whose orders ColumS
bia was burned,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

wasn't excess of intellect that caused the maiden
to attempt suicide, but quarrel with the young
mae who had been paying attention" to her.
1t will be admitted by the most ardent advocates
for the Advancement Of woman that this sort of
experience-the quarrel, not the attempted sui
cide-is one from which girl is not protected
By the highest possible mental culture. It is
held by some, the contrary, that the young
woman who knows it all is more prone to such
.faings out than her less accomplished sister.
However this may be, it is gratifying to know
that in the Harrisburg instance the results were
not fatal, the girl being pulled out, and pumped
out, aud restored TO the arms of her family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THE Chicago Herald sneeringly suggests
that at would be well for General Fairchild
and all other overheated politicians thirsting
for place and willing to perpetuate animosities
happily dying out if they would disabuse their
minds of the idea that they are the special
keepers of the Nations honor" Well, then,
who are the proper custodians of the Nations
honorl Such lickspittles as Adjutant- general
Drum, and such patriots az Mr.. Cleveland
who can see no difference between the Union
and rebel flagsP 1t strikes US that the old
soldiers who fought for the integrity of the
Nation are very proper custodians of its honor.
The insinuation that they responsible for
rousing 'the animosites of the war;" is the
old story. If these captured flags had been
let alone they might have rotted in the War
Department, and the old soldiers would never
have thought of them. 1t was the voluntary,
scandalous and cowardly proposition of the
administration to send them back South that
made the trouble. Aud because the old SOL
diers exclaimed against the outrage they are
charged with 'perpetuating the animosities
Of the war" A beautiful idea, truly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
Sentiments that Soiidify.

Jacksonville tfla.) News Herald.
Gentlemen you may not intend it, but the best
way in the world to cement US is just such ex-
pressions as the Commercial Gazette delights to
indulge Let smash the internal old
South" is the secret of our soldity this day. 1t
Democrats of our section plead the cause of fra
ternity and reconciliation. 1t matters nothing
that years ago great banquets were spread in
Northern cities, while Massachusetts and South
Carolina embraced and shook hands across the
bloody chasm to slow music, each clothed about
in the starry emblem of "a reunited country"
just as long such evidences of distrust-of
long will the South remain solid. Teach her
that behind every smile turks the poison OF
malignant hate-that every banquet was meant
to presage only some commercial advantage, and
the work of reconciliation ceases.
But 1.-THE Internal old South" will down in the
dust at no mans bidding. From the twilight
dawn of her career she furnished the brains and
character which gave common country it's
exalted rank IN the vanguard of the nations.
the matchless voice of Henry-the heroism of
jacksonville rifles of the South at New Orleans
in that war which was our second war of inde-
pendence, while New England held reasonable
communication with the epemy-the soldiers
whose valor added vast empire to our territory
were Southern aud Southerners ALL Never
until the government passed into the sfcnlng
palms of Blaine Belknap, Brady. a Dorsey,
a Refer, Robeson were the public annals OF
proud q solid, an exceptiona al emnence like that,
she afford to smile at the rawlings of envious
and malignant foes Seeing the danger from
without the Southern States draw closer to one
another, presenting an impenetrable barrier IN
in their own defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THE Board of Aldermen unanimously
passed a natural gas ordinance that has the
merit of being formed on business principles,
and apparently with desire to secure the
introduction of gas into the city. The ques-
adjustment and mutual agreement, but the
ordinance conspicuously omits of the
features that appeared in the Council ordi-
nance, and which were put there either
through ignorance or from purpose to defeat
the bringing in of a competitor to the present
fuel MONOPOLY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

it is charged that the Commissioner is patroniz-
ing Cleveland & Co. in the hope OF making
himself solid with the administration. 1t is
also limited that the other favored firm is really
owned by Cleveland & Co.. and that the Com
missioner has allowed himself to be placed
under personal obligations to the head of the
house. These charges, accompanied by ugly
looking specifications, are made by prominent
seed dealers, who declare their purpose to file
them in formal way and demand an investi-
cation. It would be sad if high reform
official should come to grief so early in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THERE seems to be trouble brewing for
Commissioner of Agriculture Norman j. Col
man. Leading seed-gr overs charge him with
gross favoritism and violation of law in the
purchase of seeds for the department. The
specific charge is that of having made large
purchases of inferior seed of one or two favored
firms, in return for which it's limited that
the Commissioner has received or expects to re-
ceive personal favors. Some of the seedsmen
have taken the trouble to dig out figures which
Ihow that during eight months of the last
fiscal year there was expended for seeds $751;
361, of which $51, OIL was paid to two con-
,erns. One of these favored firms. n. b.
Cleveland & Co, Of New York, got orders from
the department during the period named to
the amount of $34, 49, The head of the firm
is said to be relative of the President, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THE President will have to suppress Adju-
tant-general Drum. 1t won't do to have him
bruiting about letter from Mr.. Cleveland on
the subject of returning the rebel flags, and
assuring reporters that the legal aspects of the
matter were carefully considered in advance
and that the Presidents action was not due
to pressure from outside source. The Presi-
dent says that after considering the subject
with more care than when it was first pre-
sented to him orally" he finds no legal au-
thority for the order in question. TO have
Drum contradicting him in this manner must
be very exasperating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THE most cruel cut of all inflicted upon the
President comes from ex-confederates who
have been interviewed upon the subject of re-
turning their flags. Said one in ST. Louis, be:
fore the resembling Of the order: IS
'"The action of the President, unless
authorized by Congress- was very injudcous.
l am sure we do not want the flags. The
ladies of my county gave us flag, which was
captured, l think. at the second battle of
Fredericksburg. That flag is in Washington
now, and l wouldn't give two cents to have it
back. I have no use for it."
Another remarks, with profane emphasis:
ave have no use for them on God AL
mightys earth, and |, for one, say that if they
are not to be used for the purposes of peace
and harmony, by -, destroy them. They
gave me trouble enough for four years"
And to think that the President issued the
order for the benefit of these very men,
and to make them 'solidr'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
The Cora Lee Trial.

SPRINGFIELD. Mo-, June 17.-But little new
testimony was offered in the Cora Lee case to-
day. Dr. Fannie Williams OF Carthage sat by
the defendants side. Two three wit
nesses testified TO having the inevitable
yelled woman driving a gray pony on the night
of the murder. David Fisher, colored, porter of
the Laclede Hotel. in Independence, testified
that in April, 1885. Graham and Cora roomed to-
eether as man and wife, and Mrs. Molloy occu-
pied separate room.
The State closed its case, and Attorney Sewell
outlined the defense He said he would prove
that Cora Lee never came to Springfield on the
night of Sept. 30, 1885; that George Graham
and Sarah passed through and got off the cars
at Dorchester, seven miles west of Springfield,
and that Cora Lee slept that night between two
little girls at the Molloy farm, and many other
things that will establish the innocence of the
defendant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

to recover the money due 70 the State. The
trustee guilty of these acts was, at the time of
his appointment, man whose character was
bad in the opinion of many of his fellow
townsmen, a man against whom the gravest
charges had been made, which were believed
by large part of the community in which he
lived, and which were well known to the
Democratic party that elected him.
These facts and many others of like import
shown by an overwhelming of proof
by the records of the asylum, by the testi-
rnony of witnesses of unquestioned veracity
by the confessions of these trustees them
selves, and in the evidence attached to the
findings of the Senate committee, which, of
itself, shows the mendacious character of the
report.
In common with all good citizens, we would
rejoice at any change in the management of
the hospital which will remove the insane from
such custodians as DIR. Harrison and Mr.
Gapen. But we again remind the people of
Indiana that reform depending upon the
mere removal of one person and the substitu-
ZION OF announcer Will prove out temporary
and inadequate expedient long as the cor
rupt system of Democratic partisan control
remains. of which the past management is
merely an illustration. Even if the present un-
tried appointees should prove to be competent
and faithful men, they can do but little to eradi-
cate the inef6ciency of their subordinates so
long as the latter appointed upon political
grounds, while any administration, if chosen
for political reasons, is likely to repeat the ex-
periences of the one which the Governor has
feebly attempted to supersede. Abuses and
Encouragement certain to appear, at
shorter or longer intervals, so long as places in
the benevolent institutions remain part of the
spoils of party success. Permanent reform
can only come when appointments to positions
therein are made to depend upon the proved
qualifications of the applicant, under system
of fixed regulations and quite irrespective of
party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
General Sewen Draws the Line.

camden, .. oFHtVI
have served with confede-ates in Congress.
Many of them like and respect l recognize
their honesty and manliness. l ready to
unite with them in accepting the duties of the
present and in letting y-gones be by-eones.
But am not ready acknowledge that they
were right aud that l was wrong. So, too.
penetrated as far into the rebel lines as any 9TH
err, and bore my part in upholding our flag and
overthrowing the flag of the Confederacy, and
/ am not ready to return what won. Nor
upon the field of Gettysburg sacred to the sacri-
fees and the victory for the Union, am willing
to see a shaft erected to commemorate deadly
assault upon the Nation aud its defenders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

WHEN New York alderman testifies in
one examination that he received $4,000
from Jacob Sharp for his vote on certain oc-
casion, and at another swears that he got
$4,000, the discrepancy ought not to be re-
garded as proof of voluntary untruthfulness.
What is little matter of $4,000 "boodle" to
New York alderman Accuracy in regard
to trifles OF this sort is not to be expected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
experiment.

MARK HOPKINS is dead. OF him General
Garfield said. put boy at one end of
bench and Mark Hopkins at the other, and
you have a university. Probably Mark Hop
kins came nearer Dr. Arnold IN his influence
upon hisscholars and upon educational thought
than any other American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

in a saloon, lying the floor. considerably
intoxicated. when another cowboy, whose name
has not yet been learned, came mp and asked
Mccarthy get up and go with him. The young
man replied that he would, and rolled over, with
his back to the speaker. who. without another
word. drew his revolver and shot Mccarthy
through tho head killing him instantly. He
fired at Conn, who WAS standing near by, and
wounded him. The murderer then fed, and haA
not yet been apprehended. There seems to have
been no cause for the act
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18
A Drunken Man Murdered

TRINIDAD, Col, June 17.-Word was brought
to this city last evening OF a tragedy that
town thirty miles from Trinidad, in which
Young Mccarthy, cowboy, whose home is in
the Trinthera, killed. and j. A. Conn.
member of the town company, shot in the
leg Particulars thus far obtainable are rather
meaeer. but indicate that the murder of Young
Mccarthy was cold blooded aud cowardly.
Our informant says that the victim was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-18

THE G.. A. r. hadn't time to get fairly
~oused up over the matter before the Presi-
lent discovered that the return of the rebel
flags in the manner contemplated was mot
authorized by existing laws, nor justified as
an executive act" The few samples of in
dignation which did come to his notice were
of kind that led to hasty encouragement of
further demonstrations.